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Short breaks: Grand tours; Batten down the hatches, it's coming on to blow ... Writers' adventures in literature: Joseph Conrad describes an epic storm in the South China Sea

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From: The Independent on Sunday
Date: 20030928
Author:Josephine Martin

Joseph Conrad was born to Polish parents in the Ukraine in 1857. He spent much of his life on ships.

In the late 1890s, he travelled as mate on the "Highland Forrest" bound for the Far East. His captain, John McWhirr, was later depicted in the short story "Typhoon". Conrad died in Kent in 1924. This is an extract from "Typhoon", reproduced by permission of Wordsworth Classics.

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Jukes was as ready a man as any half-dozen young mates that may be caught by casting a net upon the waters; and though he had been somewhat taken aback by the startling viciousness of the first squall, he had ...

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